Chaos Photography

Photography is fun because it is random, chaotic, and unpredictable. Photography would be boring if everything were totally optimized and predictable #inpraiseofrandomness

James Gleick wrote a pretty good pop book on Chaos, that my friend Alexander Amy put me onto. The basic concept is this:

Life is chaos, and chaos is what makes life so fun and interesting!

Furthermore, when I channel my inner Nassim Taleb, I love chaos, randomness, and uncertainty. This is the root of all fun and interest in life. No movie or video game would be fun if we already knew the outcome. It is only interesting because the chaos and randomness affords us the opportunity for us to exercise our strength, and gives us the opportunity to actually challenge ourselves!

Like the ancient saying,

Difficulty awakens [our inner] giant.

I think this is why street photography and photography in general is so fun; because of the chaos and randomness! The fact that we don’t know what the photograph will look like, until we photograph it! (especially when using a flash).